Hot shortness is a phenomenon of:

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  1. hardening of nonferrous metals
  2. annealing of nonferrous metals
  3. annealing of ferrous metals
  4. hardening of ferrous metals

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Option 2 : annealing of nonferrous metals
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  • Hot shortness: It is a tendency for some alloys to fracture in a brittle manner along grain boundaries when deformed at temperatures near the melting point.
  • Hot shortness creates difficulty in hot-working operations.
  • It has commonly occurred in nonferrous metals while annealing process.
  • Cause: This occurs due to the phenomena of grain boundary embrittlement.
  • Grain boundary embrittlement: When a normal ductile and strong metal is brought into close atomic contact with certain low melting point metals they will crack easily even under very low stresses.
  • Example: Aluminium wetted with mercury-zinc amalgam

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